Jockey Javier Castellano sets single-season record for earnings at more than $25.6 million

3:39 PM,
Dec. 13, 2013

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Jockey Javier Castellano won Gulfstream Park's third race Friday by a nose aboard Ain't Gonna Lie to break Ramon Dominguez' North American single-season record for purse earnings.

The victory pushed the 36-year-old Castellano's purse earnings to $25,655,988 in 2013. He entered the day $8,849 shy of the $25,634,852 banked last year by Dominguez, 37, who was forced to retire in June, five months after suffering serious injury in a spill at Aqueduct.

Castellano, who leads the country in wins and purses earned, was a finalist for the Eclipse Award as top jockey behind Dominguez in 2011 and 2012 ...